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ABRAHAM LAPIDOT, MD, DDS
Springfield, Ill

Arch Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 1986;112(4):455-456.

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To the Editor.—Microsurgery and endoscopic surgery of the sinuses is not new.¹ Howard Greenfield, MD, of Poughkeepsie, NY, and now of Los Angeles, has pioneered in this field at least since 1973 and probably longer. It took the European specialists to utilize this mode of treatment, and 1986 suddenly sees the United States jumping on the bandwagon, possibly because of the advent of arthroscopic (closed) knee surgery, which appears to be so helpful in selected cases.

The sinuses are paranasal (around the nose) air-containing cavities as is the middle ear an air-containing cavity. The sinuses are ventilated by 1- to 1.5-mm openings (ostia) as is the middle ear, except that the latter has a long tube (eustachian tube) through which the air we breathe is channeled to its destination.

For the better part of 40 years, poor ventilation of the middle ear has been treated by indirect (politzerization) . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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